For Ever

Forever is such a powerful word.  Yet it is used so lightly.  Forever is infinite.  A term used to describe a never ending amount of time.  For Ever is also one more thing, my name. 

                My name is For, For Ever.  There is a reason behind my name, a big reason.  I don’t die.  I’m immortal.  My life will never end. 

                I wasn’t born like a normal child, from a mother with a father.  I was created by some of the world’s most brilliant scientists in the most cutting edge technology laboratory on the planet, in the remote part of the Colorado Mountains. 

                The scientists sought to create a new, perfect, human who was so wonderful, they would never die.  Soon a new and perfected race of humans, like me, would walk the Earth.  Once we have repopulated ourselves, we will never have to reproduce again, giving us more time to think about important things. 

                Dr. Derik Cooper tells me I’m perfect.  The most beautiful human being ever made.  Dr. Cooper led in my creation.  He reworked my DNA to shape how I would look, act, and feel.  While Dr. Cooper tells me how beautiful I am, he refuses to let me outside.  “Normal humans are far too dangerous and gruesome.  I would never want to expose my perfect For Ever to those kind of barbaric ways.  They would try to hurt you For, and I could not afford that to happen.”   I always fire back with my favorite line.  “But I’m For Ever!  I can’t die! You know that better than anyone Derik.  You created me!”  Dr. Cooper hates when he is called Derik, which is why I do it.  In the end of our arguments, he always sends me to my room. 

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   I awoke in my huge soft bed.  My room had four glass walls, all with retractable shades.  I hardly ever closed the shades; my view was too spectacular to close myself off from it.  I overlooked a valley, with huge lavender and baby blue mountains, rising up to peak with snow.  The valley was lush and green and in the spring, often with little purple and yellow flowers, showing their colors amongst the tall green grass.  Some days, I can see wildlife in the valley.  I have seen numerous deer and wolves, sometimes with their pups and fawns.  I spy many birds and other small wildlife.  When we get lots of rain, a pond forms in the middle of the valley, forming a small lake which draws in an even a more diverse range of animals.  It reflects the view of the mountains, like a mirror. 

                I sit down at my vanity, which was directly in front of my bed.  I brushed out my perfect chocolate brown hair which most girls would kill for, or so Derik tells me.  My eyelashes are curly, long and black, and my skin goes without a blemish.  I never have dark circles under my eyes, no matter how late I stay up at night. My eyebrows are always plucked, and my bright blue eyes are never bloodshot. 

                I stand up and go towards my dresser.  I pull out a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that bears the name “Abercrombie” across the front in big silver glitter letters.  I changed in my bathroom and pulled my hair into a ponytail.  Even though Derik hates my hair up, I still wear it that way.  He says since my hair always looks perfect down, that I should wear it that way, but I hate having my hair in my face.  He always got mad about that subject, but I don’t care.  He wouldn’t hurt me because I am perfect and I am immortal. 

                Opening my door, I headed down to Dr. Cooper’s office.  He would give me my chores for the day, and my classes.  All my classes were taught to me by the scientists here at the lab.  Derik says that going to normal school would be too boring for my advanced brain. 

                “Good morning!” I said as I knocked on the wooden door. A golden name plate that read “DR. DERIK COOPER reflected right into my eyes, so I pushed the door open without him saying “Come in”.

                Derik grunted. “Good morning For,” He said without looking up from his computer. 

                “Can I please have my chores and classes for the day?” I asked politely, Derik was a stickler about manners. 

                “I don’t know, can you?” He looked up.  His blue gray eyes were bloodshot, as they looked over his golden rimmed circle glasses.  His blonde curly hair was a rat’s nest atop his head, even though he kept it cut short.  A coffee stain showed upon his crisp and clean white lab coat.  Derik had probably been up working all night, which I admired him for.  He was such a hard worker, and did everything he could to make sure my life was easy and comfortable. 

                “May I please have my chores and classes for the day?” I asked again, slightly annoyed.  I couldn’t stay mad at Derik, after all, without him, I wouldn’t be alive. 

                Without a word, he grabbed a paper from his printer and handed it to me.  I skimmed it over quickly.  There was nothing unusual.  The normal taking my laundry down to the laundry room.  Elma the maid would to the laundry for me.  I just had to make my bed and be sure my room was tidy.  I had math with Dr. Brannon, science with Dr. Keylee, and history geography with Dr. Fasgold.  One last assignment was on my page, “Lesson, Dr. Cooper, Lab 6”

                “What is lesson?” I asked Derik, I was still standing in his office.  He paused his typing on his computer and leaned back in his desk chair, putting his hands behind his head.  “You’ll just have to wait and see my beautiful For Ever.” With that last remark, Derik dismissed me from the room with a wave of his hand, and I was off to complete the tedious classes that were required of me.

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                I ran down to Lab 6 as fast as my legs could carry me, which was pretty fast considering my speed had been genetically enhanced.  Derik’s “Lesson” was next on my schedule.  Number six, the devil’s number.  I remember Dr. Fasgold telling me that once. 

                I tried the knob of the door, and it refused to budge, so I knocked.  Patience was something Derik forgot to put in my DNA because I had none of it.  I knocked again, and then again. 

                “Fine I’m coming!” An annoyed voice spoke from behind the door.

                The door was unlocked and opened, and I was face to face with Derik. 

                “Welcome For,” He said as he quickly shuffled me inside. 

                The lights were dim and many tubes curved around sucking liquid from inside various beakers, pumping them all into a dark container about the size of a gallon milk jug.  This contraption sat on the table in the middle of Lab 6.  Many computer monitors were hooked up to the dark container, recording millions of lines of code per second. 

                “What is this?” I asked, in awe 

                “This is the creation of Infinity Ever.  He will be your husband and partner for eternity,” Derik looked up at me, knowing he had began to fulfill a promise he had made a long time ago.

                “You’re finally doing it?! Oh thank you!” I said and hugged Derik.  Shocked, he returned the favor.  “I cannot thank you enough! I will finally have a pair, someone like me!” 

                “Yes you will.  Now we are still creating Infinity, and in fact, he is so small that a human eye cannot see him without the help of a microscope.  I am not going to show you this because it is not important.  I have more work to do, so unfortunately I am going to have to dismiss you For.  I cannot risk having someone, even you, see how we perform this secret creation,” Derik grabbed my hand and led me out of the lab.  He said nothing and shut the door behind me, locking it again.

                I was in a state of shock. Derik had talked and talked about creating me a pair, but he never went through with his plans.  I was so ecstatic that I was going to have someone like me!  Someone who was also immortal!  I was going to have someone to spend forever and infinity with; We were the future of a new and perfect world.  Infinity and For, Ever.